CBR10Bingo – Brain Candy If you’ve read this book, you’re already horrified by my calling it Brain Candy. But I am taking that literally and applying it directly to the book. This book involves a horribly oppressed and traumatized and abused woman, Connie, who begins the book off being forced into a mental health facility against her will through the betrayal of her niece and the violence of her niece’s pimp/fiance. Brain Candy! So what happens next is that Connie is latched onto from the […]
A Recommendation from Gloria Steinem
Woman on the Edge of Time is a sci-fi or “speculative fiction” classic originally published in 1976. Author Marge Piercy has had critical success as a novelist and poet over a span of several decades, and I remember reading some of her poetry in college but it was a recent NY Times interview with Gloria Steinem that brought Piercy and this particular novel back onto my radar. Woman on the Edge of Time is a provocative tale of time travel that addresses poverty, race, sex, politics, […]